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   Marco Rogers (polotek@social.polotek.net)'s status on Saturday, 20-Apr-2024 08:52:02 JST Marco Rogers

   The CEO of Post News DMed me on twitter a while back. My impression is that part of his job was trying to convince prolific posters to come over and hopefully bring some part of their audience with them.

   I politely declined. I noped out of Post News once I understood that Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway were involved. I don't want anything to do with a community shaped by those two. (It's okay if you like them. We don't need to talk about it.)
   https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/19/24135011/twitter-alternative-post-news-shutdown

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     Marco Rogers (polotek@social.polotek.net)'s status on Saturday, 20-Apr-2024 08:51:40 JST Marco Rogers

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     The unforgivable thing for a new social platform is when you try to tell your users what you're were gonna be. You can't tell us how to use it. You can't tell us we're doing it wrong. We tell you.

     We make you successful by deciding to choose your platform to post whatever we feel like. If enough of us choose to do that, maybe you can be successful. But I guarantee it won't look like what you thought when you started. And the worst thing you can do is try too hard to control things.

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     Marco Rogers (polotek@social.polotek.net)'s status on Saturday, 20-Apr-2024 08:51:51 JST Marco Rogers

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     I was on Twitter for almost 15 years. Not quite an original, but damn close. I've canvased a bunch of the upstarts trying to fill the gap now that Twitter is slowly imploding. Post News, Spoutible, Hive, a long tail of other stuff. They all made various mistakes. But that's not it. You can survive a lot of mistakes when building a social network.

     Evan Prodromou repeated this.
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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Saturday, 20-Apr-2024 08:52:31 JST Evan Prodromou

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     @polotek whoa. You told him, the people on the network make the network what it is, and he *blocked* you for it?!?

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     Marco Rogers (polotek@social.polotek.net)'s status on Saturday, 20-Apr-2024 08:52:42 JST Marco Rogers

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     Anyway, the CEO of Post was trying to find common ground. I told him I didn't think I was the kind of person he wanted on his platform. I said I believe our views are incompatible. He pressed me to explain to him why. So I did. And he blocked me.

     I knew then that they didn't have what it takes. 😂